Word of the Year: Change

In 2010, millions of people from all walks of life visited Dictionary.com to discover the correct spelling, pronunciation, or definition of millions of words. Our Word of the Year directly reflects the thoughts of our users—a word that experienced a surge of look-ups in the past 12 months. The word is “change.” It’s not trendy or funny, nor was it coined on Twitter, but we think it tells a revealing story about how our users define 2010.